On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 02:14:59AM -0500, Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> Gary R. Van Sickle wrote: >> > I have a non-setup, single-click method of installing >> snapshots that >> > I've used for quite a while, if that's of any interest. >> >> How can we possibly know whether it is of interest if you >> don't tell us anything about it? > >Well: > >- It's not setup based. >- It's single-click. >- I've used it personally for quite a while. > >;-) > >It's a magical Windows batch/Perl script combo in a single file. You run >it, it uses Perl to scan the snapshot HTML page for the latest one, >downloads the .tar.bz using wget, untars everything using tar, and with some >batch file sleight of hand replaces cygwin1.dll. No options or anything, >zero interactivity, but it's been extremely reliable for me, and I use it >all the time (i.e. just about daily). I've posted it to one of the lists >before, but I'm sure I've updated it since then with better error handling >etc. > >I don't know what level of user Chris had in mind when he posited the >original query, but any potential user of this (awesome) script would have >to be sharp enough to know what to do if the latest snapshot, say, broke >perl. I.e., run setup and install the release version of the DLL. It's >rare that this happens, but it does happen on occasion.
I think this would be adequate for my purposes. I just want something which decreases the barrier to someone installing a snapshot. Do you want to post the script? cgf
